A Harvard dean who probed discrimination in the university’s admissions process was never shown the college’s own data revealing Asian-Americans are less likely to score a spot, he admitted in court Tuesday.

The lawyer for a nonprofit suing the Ivy League school over the alleged bias showed Dean Rakesh Khurana a 2013 Harvard study that found being an Asian-American has a negative impact on your chances of gaining entry.

“You had never seen this?” the group’s lawyer, Adam Mortara, asked in Boston federal court.

Khurana answered: “No.”

The study, projected on a courtroom screen, elicited a collective gasp from a group of Asian scholars in the gallery.

In the years after the report, Khurana chaired a committee to study student body diversity and was one of three deans on another charged with exploring the plaintiff’s discrimination claims.

Yet he never saw the internal Office of Institutional Research report, which found top athletes and legacies are more likely to gain one of the school’s coveted seats — while being Asian-American puts potential students at a disadvantage.